Congratulations to both teams, but especially Tsu for really taking advantage of the Captains Mode drafting throughout the tournament. They consistently managed to get great civ combos which combined with their excellent play, made for many exciting games!

Missing QuEnDi A's PoV for g4.1.

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Beating quendi twice and horseforce aswell.Well deserved victory! Really made good use fo the settings. While both 2nd and 3rd place are better players individually, they were somewhat lacking in teamplay and definitely in the drafting procedure.

Thanks for the great tournament guys. Was really alot of fun to watch and follow.

The draft mode has been pointed out already, but I was astonished by how dominant Tsu was on water.However, I think the 1v1s was decisive. Really great game by Nilpferd and ensuring them a matchpoint on water was the key.

Hats off to Shine for playing that unprepaired yet that stronk. "Opening our draft sheet on the other laptop was all preparition I had."11

Fun to watch.And its always curious to see the civ picks on maps where RM would dictate completely different choices.

Let me start this out with saying, that Tsubenstock really played well in this series and showed a better performance overall. I especially want to point out Nilis performance since he played all games, won the 1v1 against Kellan and seemed to be the main playmaker in his team and pulled some nice moves out of his pocket.

On the topic of drafts: We really have given the bans and picks a lot of thought beforehand. I think the main issue now in hindsight was that we tried to play too much against the opposing team rather than the map itself. We took quite some time looking at past games of Tsu and analyzing their picks and bans for certain maps. We then got caught off guard a few times when we were confronted with unexpected situations. So maybe we wouldve been better of just focusing on the civs we want to play rather than focusing on countering their supposed picks. On the viking pick: On TI the start is crucial and in all the compring and testing we did viking performed really well and we were confident in choosing them in the end. I think the focus shouldnt be too much on the drafting, since I dont think it was one of the main factors in the end, to not take away from the great performance by Tsubenstock.